bluapapilio | Anime Check-in: Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood ep. 1-3

Episode 1: Feels a little trippy watching this in 2025, having seen all of the first anime years and years ago. I still have 50 chapters to go of the manga. When you look at it the manga really was short. Gosh, Brotherhood came out only 5 years after the first anime ended!

What's also funny is that I'm already really familiar with the opening and ending songs!

Episode 1 is an original episode but it does a great job of showing the problems in the government. The Freezing Alchemist leaving the military after Bradley sent them to massacre Ishvalans and joining the anti-establishment movement, then trying to recruit Kimblee who didn't care about that and just wanted to kill people. Plus the glimpses of something more in flashes throughout the episode.

If I were Hughes I sure wouldn't be able to sleep at the idea of Ed and Al being sent to massacre innocents either. They may be broken but not in that way yet.

We also see that Ed has a long way to go in both experience and knowledge. Although Roy and Armstrong both messed up too;;

Episode 2-3: Honestly kinda don't wanna watch the Liore part, I remember it very well.

I'm guessing Bradley recognized that Ed had been beyond the door when he saw him use a transmutation circle without drawing it.

I wonder what causes a rebound exactly? Trying to put too much into it? Overusing it? Not putting enough??

I am glad Brotherhood is different in where it takes Rose considering what happened to her in the first adaptation...

Can't believe Ed let the fraud go instead of turning him in, but I think it shows even more how much he only cared about the potential philosopher's stone.

Oh nooo it's Nina next...